Brandon Lee chose a passage from Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, about how few times we will truly watch a full moon rise, for his wedding invitations; it is now etched on his tombstone. This episode looks past the two events that dominate his public story, being the son of Bruce Lee and the accident on the set of The Crow, to illuminate the driven artist in between. Born in Oakland in 1965 and trained by his father, he lost him at age eight and grew up under looming gym photographs of a legend.

The conversation follows his rebellion into soccer, expulsion from the Chadwick School months before graduation, theater study at Emerson College, and the strategic decision to pay Hollywood's toll with action roles in Kung Fu: The Movie, Legacy of Rage, Laser Mission, Showdown in Little Tokyo, and Rapid Fire. It then details his total physical tr ...